Thanks for the memories. I was just telling my daughter about goat hill and the Peral Beer structure "From the land of 1,100 springs" 👍✌️ My Dad worked in Downtown as a Sheriff's Deputy, and my Papa (maternal) was a type setter for the DMN, and a great aunt (paternal) was a switchboard operator for SWB, family (maternal) worked for the interurban companies. YES!!! YOUR VIDEO TOOK ME BACK. Born at Baylor (Gaston Av.) in 1962. Grew up in Garland. Again Thank you. ✌️👍🤠
Thanks for the upload... so good to see the old city. I grew up in Waxahachie... I saw the sign and the Cabana Hotel where the Beatles stayed when they visited Dallas Sept. 1964. It was only 2 years old then. It was once owned by Doris Day and Rachel Welch was a waitress there. A North Texas developer behind the redevelopment of The Statler Hotel has been selected by Dallas County officials to acquire the former Cabana Motor Hotel for $8.1 million. This was in Sept. 2017. I am surprised it has made it this long.
As a history buff this was a really cool video. I had no idea that these buildings have been around since 1968. I was so surprised that Dallas looked so modern even back then and many of these same structures are still standing. Great Video
I lived in Pleasant Grove in 1968. The Mobile horse on 1:12 brought back a lot of memories. We used to go to the drive in on Jim Miller rd and the highway and you could see the mobile horse spinning downtown. My Dad said that there was a horse on both sides of the spinning sign because Dallas wasn't a one horse town. One landmark I didn't see was the big beer sign with the waterfall on Stemmons Frwy.
Nice, vintage shots of Dallas, TX including the Love Field airport area. Seen approaching for landing at 2:30 is an Eastern Airlines Boeing 720 and at 2:40 is a Braniff International Airways, Boeing 727-100. Thanks for sharing!
@.34 seconds the film shows the triple under-pass at Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. This particular segment is crucial, because, from Stemmons Frwy a normal person can see the area of the railroad track & picket fence that Ed Hoffman said he wittnessed the rifleman shoot President John Fitzgerald Kennedy some 5 years earlier. The tree growth to very high in that area now and people have speculated for decades after Ed Hoffman told his eyewitness account to newsman that the trees have always been to high as seen from the point Ed was standing on I-35 Stemmo ns Frwy. Now he has passed on to the grave with his story, I am glad I met him in 1995 at Dealey Plaza. I believe he seen the assassins.....
Had it not been for that moment in history, that School Book Depository building's key attraction would have been that time/temp display (only in use from 1959 to 1973). Didn't show any degree sign when the temperature was displayed.
That's right. My family lived in Singing Hills off Laureland and I-35. When we drove downtown, going northbound on 35, during Christmas, that building did say NOEL.
Townview School started out a the very nice A. Harris Shopping Center. (As in Sanger- Harris .) I didn't like when it turned into something else. Dallas used to be so fun and beautiful. Now,, it's over developed and over crowded. The 66 to 69 time was the absolute best - before the big airport. I enjoyed Dallas being a small city even though it did not feel small. The "changers" even messed up the interior of the Kalita Humphreys Theater. It was designed a certain, beautiful way and now it is crammed full of seats and all black inside. Looks awful, not the way it was designed. They hired a designer, then after he's gone, just gutted it.
I think that is my old high school Crozier Tech on the left side of Bryan street at 1:44, it's hard for me to tell it's so blurry. Airports ruined Dallas, I despise pilots, they are so inconsiderate of others.
I do agree that the DFW Airport ruined Dallas. The "Wright Amendment" (wrong amendment ) crippled Southwest Airline routing for decades. After it went away, SWA could actually fly point to point without extra stops. Boo to Jim Wright, government control operative.
